a person who helps take control of an area or a country that is not their own, especially using force, and sends people from their own country to live there 在(某国家或地区)建立殖民地;移民于殖民地 the arrival of European colonizers 欧洲殖民者的到来
an animal or plant that lives or grows in large numbers in a particular area (在某一地区)聚居,大批生长 Saltgrass is the first perennial colonizer of shorelines. 盐草是海岸线的第一个常年殖民者。